Worst book you ever read?

[Lessien]

But those are my favorite books!

Sorry, if I sounded insulting, but I could not stand that book.

 

[Captivated]

The worst book I (almost) read will be many people's favourite book : Catch 22. It was a book group read and I just couldn't get through it, I was almost crying with frustration at having to attempt it. I eventually gave up, despite someone telling me that it got better after 200 pages! What! waste time reading 200 pages that you couldn't care less about! Life's too short!

 

[Paddington]

^ I couldn't get into Catch 22 either. The writing style didn't appeal to me at all, but then neither did the story I knew was coming so I didn't try as hard as I did with Wuthering Heights.

 

[Nienor]

The worst book I (almost) read will be many people's favourite book : Catch 22. It was a book group read and I just couldn't get through it, I was almost crying with frustration at having to attempt it. I eventually gave up, despite someone telling me that it got better after 200 pages! What! waste time reading 200 pages that you couldn't care less about! Life's too short!

^ I couldn't get into Catch 22 either. The writing style didn't appeal to me at all, but then neither did the story I knew was coming so I didn't try as hard as I did with Wuthering Heights.

Nooooooooo......this thread is making me sadder and sadder. Stop listing my favorite books as the worst one. Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, A Song of Ice and Fire....what's next 1984? A Clockwork Orange? The Coldfire Trilogy? Why???

 

[TracerBullet]

Steven King’s “the Stand”. I was reading the unabridged version…the book often mistaken for a small car…and I was about forty pages from the end when I realized I didn’t care. I didn’t care what happened. I didn’t care about any of the characters (aside from a small hope that everyone ends up dead). I put the book done and have never looked back.

I suspect I would have a similar reaction to the “Left Behind” books…but I doubt I would get anywhere near the end

 

[sister_maynard]

I keep hearing mixed reviews of the "Left Behind" series; people either love it tremendously or want to smash their heads into walls after only half a book. I don't think I could really get into it.

 

[Captivated]

Nooooooooo......this thread is making me sadder and sadder. Stop listing my favorite books as the worst one. Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, A Song of Ice and Fire....what's next 1984? A Clockwork Orange? The Coldfire Trilogy? Why???

You needn't be sad, Nienor! It shows the infinite variety of people and tastes, something we can celebrate! And I imagine if I told you some of my favourite books you would be shaking your head in puzzlement!

(Of your list of favourites I've only read Catch 22 and Catcher in the Rye. But I did read ALL of Catcher in the Rye!)

 

[ZiSunka]

I keep hearing mixed reviews of the "Left Behind" series; people either love it tremendously or want to smash their heads into walls after only half a book. I don't think I could really get into it.

The first book is good, the second and third are okay, and they go downhill from there. If you read the first one, that's about all you need to read. By the last one, it's all tripe.

 

[Nienor]

You needn't be sad, Nienor! It shows the infinite variety of people and tastes, something we can celebrate! And I imagine if I told you some of my favourite books you would be shaking your head in puzzlement!

(Of your list of favourites I've only read Catch 22 and Catcher in the Rye. But I did read ALL of Catcher in the Rye!)

But Catch 22 is on my list of books that people should rad before they die...it shouldn't be on a worst book ever list

Oh well...to each their own

 

[Lessien]

I keep hearing mixed reviews of the "Left Behind" series; people either love it tremendously or want to smash their heads into walls after only half a book. I don't think I could really get into it.

Did you hear about the Left Behind video game? A guy on the radio was talking about it today. He said that

"You're a guy running around, post-Rapture, and you can convert people. If you convert a man, then you can turn him into a soldier, or a builder, or whatever. But if you convert a woman, all she can really do is pray."

Isn't that dumb? That the guys who wrote those books (who I'm guessing helped design the game) think all women can do to help is pray? That we're not good for anything else? Is that sexist or what?

 

[NeoScribe]

Well its that or get zapped by the Antichrist! Seriously, that happened to a girl in the books, Hattie, i think her name was. I cant remember how Amanda died, but I do remember that Cloe had her head chopped off, and Nada died in prison. I never found out what happened to Vicki.

Anyways, maybe he's just trying to spare the women the often brutal fate of their story counter-parts.

 

[ZiSunka]

Did you hear about the Left Behind video game? A guy on the radio was talking about it today. He said that

"You're a guy running around, post-Rapture, and you can convert people. If you convert a man, then you can turn him into a soldier, or a builder, or whatever. But if you convert a woman, all she can really do is pray."

Isn't that dumb? That the guys who wrote those books (who I'm guessing helped design the game) think all women can do to help is pray? That we're not good for anything else? Is that sexist or what?

And if the person doesn't convert, you can shoot them.

What's Christian about this game? It seems like the worst sort of blasphemy to me.

 

[Lessien]

And if the person doesn't convert, you can shoot them.

Seriously?!

Well its that or get zapped by the Antichrist! Seriously, that happened to a girl in the books, Hattie, i think her name was. I cant remember how Amanda died, but I do remember that Cloe had her head chopped off, and Nada died in prison. I never found out what happened to Vicki.

Anyways, maybe he's just trying to spare the women the often brutal fate of their story counter-parts.

And let me guess....the guys managed to escape.

Well, I still think he's being sexist...I mean, both men and women die. Both men and women can accept Christ. And both men and women can go to prison. What possessed him to think that only men can further God's kingdom?

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

What possessed him to think that only men can further God's kingdom?

Wait, did the authors really say this? write this? whatever?
Does that sort of sexism really occur in the series? Totally negation of the capabilities of men and women?

I feel like swearing, but anyway, this "different but equal!" trash needs to die. Seriously.

 

[Lessien]

Wait, did the authors really say this? write this? whatever?
Does that sort of sexism really occur in the series? Totally negation of the capabilities of men and women?

I feel like swearing, but anyway, this "different but equal!" trash needs to die. Seriously.

No, he never said that. BUT, if you read my earlier posts about the Left Behind video game, you'll see what I'm talking about.

"Different but equal TRASH?!" Now I feel like swearing. God wouldn't have given women unique and valuable abilities if he didn't expect us to use them for Him. If all He wanted women to do is pray (and maybe *gasp* teach Sunday school--but only when her husband is present), then I don't think He would have given women abilities at all. Just the ones needed to manage a household. Seriously, all this sexist trash needs to die.

 

[Borealis]

Nooooooooo......this thread is making me sadder and sadder. Stop listing my favorite books as the worst one. Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, A Song of Ice and Fire....what's next 1984? A Clockwork Orange? The Coldfire Trilogy? Why???

Well, if we all liked the same thing, there wouldn't be 31 Flavors, would there?

 

[sister_maynard]

And if the person doesn't convert, you can shoot them.

What's Christian about this game? It seems like the worst sort of blasphemy to me.

I can understand that the church wants to try to use secular mediums to reach more people, but killing those who don't agree with your religion, even in a video game, is an atrocious thing to teach young Christians to do.

 

[ignight]

Sounder... Definatly sounder. Its about a dog... and the first this about animal stories is there either going to be touching or the animal dies... or both. One bad thing keep on happening right after another. teribal book never read it!!!
Ps . I belive the animal gets half it face blowen off...I think it died ( I not sure ).....but if it did it proves me right.

 

[OceanGirl]

Grr...The Great Gatsby. I smell a bonfire needing a few volumes. -_-

 

[ZiSunka]

I loved Gatsby.

What did you hate about it?